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>E.157. Release 7.3.10</A
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>Release Date: </B
>2005-05-09</P
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>   This release contains a variety of fixes from 7.3.9, including several
   security-related issues.
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>    A dump/restore is not required for those running 7.3.X.  However,
    it is one possible way of handling a significant security problem
    that has been found in the initial contents of 7.3.X system
    catalogs.  A dump/initdb/reload sequence using 7.3.10's initdb will
    automatically correct this problem.
   </P
><P
>    The security problem is that the built-in character set encoding
    conversion functions can be invoked from SQL commands by unprivileged
    users, but the functions were not designed for such use and are not
    secure against malicious choices of arguments.  The fix involves changing
    the declared parameter list of these functions so that they can no longer
    be invoked from SQL commands.  (This does not affect their normal use
    by the encoding conversion machinery.)
    It is strongly recommended that all installations repair this error,
    either by initdb or by following the manual repair procedure given
    below.  The error at least allows unprivileged database users to crash
    their server process, and might allow unprivileged users to gain the
    privileges of a database superuser.
   </P
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>    If you wish not to do an initdb, perform the following procedure instead.
    As the database superuser, do:

</P><PRE
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>BEGIN;
UPDATE pg_proc SET proargtypes[3] = 'internal'::regtype
WHERE pronamespace = 11 AND pronargs = 5
     AND proargtypes[2] = 'cstring'::regtype;
-- The command should report having updated 90 rows;
-- if not, rollback and investigate instead of committing!
COMMIT;</PRE
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>    The above procedure must be carried out in <SPAN
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>each</I
></SPAN
> database
    of an installation, including <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>template1</TT
>, and ideally
    including <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>template0</TT
> as well.  If you do not fix the
    template databases then any subsequently created databases will contain
    the same error.  <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>template1</TT
> can be fixed in the same way
    as any other database, but fixing <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>template0</TT
> requires
    additional steps.  First, from any database issue:
</P><PRE
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>UPDATE pg_database SET datallowconn = true WHERE datname = 'template0';</PRE
><P>
     Next connect to <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>template0</TT
> and perform the above repair
     procedure.  Finally, do:
</P><PRE
CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING"
>-- re-freeze template0:
VACUUM FREEZE;
-- and protect it against future alterations:
UPDATE pg_database SET datallowconn = false WHERE datname = 'template0';</PRE
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>Change encoding function signature to prevent
misuse</P
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><LI
><P
>Repair ancient race condition that allowed a transaction to be
seen as committed for some purposes (eg SELECT FOR UPDATE) slightly sooner
than for other purposes</P
><P
>This is an extremely serious bug since it could lead to apparent
data inconsistencies being briefly visible to applications.</P
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><LI
><P
>Repair race condition between relation extension and
VACUUM</P
><P
>This could theoretically have caused loss of a page's worth of
freshly-inserted data, although the scenario seems of very low probability.
There are no known cases of it having caused more than an Assert failure.</P
></LI
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>Fix comparisons of <TT
CLASS="TYPE"
>TIME WITH TIME ZONE</TT
> values</P
><P
>The comparison code was wrong in the case where the
<TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>--enable-integer-datetimes</TT
> configuration switch had been used.
NOTE: if you have an index on a <TT
CLASS="TYPE"
>TIME WITH TIME ZONE</TT
> column,
it will need to be <TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>REINDEX</TT
>ed after installing this update, because
the fix corrects the sort order of column values.</P
></LI
><LI
><P
>Fix <CODE
CLASS="FUNCTION"
>EXTRACT(EPOCH)</CODE
> for
<TT
CLASS="TYPE"
>TIME WITH TIME ZONE</TT
> values</P
></LI
><LI
><P
>Fix mis-display of negative fractional seconds in
<TT
CLASS="TYPE"
>INTERVAL</TT
> values</P
><P
>This error only occurred when the
<TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>--enable-integer-datetimes</TT
> configuration switch had been used.</P
></LI
><LI
><P
>Additional buffer overrun checks in plpgsql
(Neil)</P
></LI
><LI
><P
>Fix pg_dump to dump trigger names containing <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>%</TT
>
correctly (Neil)</P
></LI
><LI
><P
>Prevent <CODE
CLASS="FUNCTION"
>to_char(interval)</CODE
> from dumping core for
month-related formats</P
></LI
><LI
><P
>Fix <TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>contrib/pgcrypto</TT
> for newer OpenSSL builds
(Marko Kreen)</P
></LI
><LI
><P
>Still more 64-bit fixes for
<TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>contrib/intagg</TT
></P
></LI
><LI
><P
>Prevent incorrect optimization of functions returning
<TT
CLASS="TYPE"
>RECORD</TT
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